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Watch the universe emerge from the dark ages, with Lumina

New simulation tracks dark matter, galaxies, stars, and cosmic structures over the universe’s first 2 billion years, in greater detail than ever before.

October 26, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Mark Vogelsberger wins 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for simulating a “fuzzy” universe

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

Stars, brains, and enzymes: a celebration of MIT science

Categories: Events, Faculty
Snapshot from a computer simulation showing a cross-section of the plasma inside a tokamak reactor.

Storm in a cosmic teacup: A new paradigm for understanding plasma turbulence

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment

Ten “keys to reality” from Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek

Categories: Profile, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Graphic of inflation

The Beginning to the End of the the Universe: Inflating the cosmos

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Illustration of baby in high chair looking at the stars with a telescope

Seeing Wonder Through the Eyes of Science

Categories: Faculty

RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny

Categories: Research, Faculty, Biophysics
A colorful computer model of a Bose-Einstein condensate against a black background

New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

20 things that went strangely, wonderfully right in 2020

Categories: Faculty, WiSTEM

Professor and astrophysicist Sara Seager appointed officer to the Order of Canada

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

The Year in Physics

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM
MIT dome in Spring

Top MIT research stories of 2020

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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